The SNK World Championship 2023 finals are about to commence! This esports tournament features players competing for the top spot in The King of Fighters XV. Qualifying Tournaments have taken place worldwide, leading to 32 finalists who will battle it out at the Finals Tournament. The total prize pool for all tournamen

EVO Japan's The King of Fighters XV finals had a few big announcements before the tournament, mostly involving new content for the current 3v3 fighting game and its upcoming 2D fighting sequel to Garou: Mark of the Wolves. First up is KOF XV: Goenitz has been announced as the next new character in the title. He will

SNK has released new The King of Fighters XV gameplay footage of video game's most famous taekwondo practitioner. No, not Juri; the original 90s Fatal Fury one. That's right: Kim Kaphwan will be out as part of KOF XV's Season 2 DLC this Summer. He's bringing his brand of kick-laden justice to his foes in the latest

Capcom and SNK are fighting game juggernauts then and now, so it only made sense for both of them to team up at one point to make a crossover fighting game between the two factions. That happened with 2000's Capcom VS SNK and 2001's Capcom VS SNK 2, with both games being very popular in their time. Will there be a r

During the EVO 2022 The King of Fighters XV top 8 tournament, SNK took to the stage and revealed it's going to work on a brand new Fatal Fury/Garou: Mark of the Wolves game. The new Fatal Fury project has been greenlit, which is great news for fighting game fans since it's been 20+ years since we've had a new entry

A leak has appeared on Twitter that Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is back at it again with yet another crossover collaboration, this time with the Fatal Fury fighting game series from SNK. Over the many years since the fighting game's inception, Fatal Fury has collaborated with many different games, notably with Tekk

The King of Fighters XV has added a new playable character into the fray: Omega Rugal. Veterans of KOF will remember Rugal Bernstein and his Omega counterpart as the de facto fighting game bosses of KOF '94, KOF '95, KOF '98, and other dream match entries. He has it all: a fast projectile, a way to reflect projectil

The company that made The King of Fighters XV and other classic 2D action and fighting games is pretty much fully owned by Saudi Arabian royalty. In late 2020, the company known as Electronic Gaming Development Company (EGDC), that is owned by Saudi Arabia crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, previously purchased a 33%

Score yet another KO for Malaysia video game production work. It turns out that Malaysian video game outsourcing company Lemon Sky Studios had a hand in making & beautifying SNK's latest 2D fighting game The King of Fighters XV (thanks Fat Cat Lim). The company worked on the game's character and environment art,

The classic 23-year-old Neo Geo Pocket game, SNK Vs Capcom Card Fighters’ Clash is now available for download on the Nintendo Switch. First released all the way back in 1999, the classic game SNK Vs Capcom Card Fighters’ Clash is making a return on the Nintendo Switch and is available for purchase righ

Better late than never, eh? SNK makes a throwback to one of its revered fighting games onto 2019's Samurai Shodown in DLC form. That's right: Hibiki from The Last Blade games makes her way into the game as a guest DLC character, putting her issen sword technique & fast running speed to great use. https://www.

How many of you have touched or played a Neo Geo Pocket Color back in 1999? No one? Just me? In any case, one of the few Capcom and SNK team-up games is making its way in its original handheld form onto the Nintendo Switch. SNK VS Capcom: Match of the Millenium will be out on the Nintendo eShop this 17th February.

Never thought we'd see a figurehead of a country take over one of the 90s most prominent arcade game-making companies. In recent news via Twitter's Gatoray_KOF, SNK's majority of shares has been purchased by the Saudi-based Electronic Gaming Development Company; about 33.3 percent. That's not all though: the Saudi C

Bloomberg recently reported that Sony is considering a bid for Leyou Technologies. Why is that significant in the gaming industry business? Because Leyou is the parent company of SNK Corporation, the folks behind the King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, and Samurai Shodown series. Anonymous sources from Sony also said that S

There are a lot of reasons why Mai Shiranui is one of the most popular fighting game characters in the world. Well, a pair of reasons in particular. Her birthday is coming up really soon and SNK is celebrating it in a very awesome way. From 26 December 2019 to 6 January 2020, SNK is opening an "all-ages" Mai Shiranu

SNK has announced the Neo Geo Arcade Stick. Inspired by the classic Neo Geo CD's controller design, it is essentially an entire retro gaming console in the form of controller. It comes with over 20 pre-installed games. The company has yet to reveal what any of these games are, but they will likely include iconic title

With the Dragon Quest Hero already in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, many fans are speculating over who will be the next fighter in the game's Season Pass. So far, here are the current rumours. Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden A YouTuber named IAmShifty claims that he knows the identity of the next fighter after Banjo-Kazooie: Ryu Ha

As Kakuchopurei's official SNK nut, it is imperative that I share these couple of tidbits to you retro/arcade fans out there. There are currently four official SNK shops in Tokyo that is chock-filled with themed food, drinks, and merchandise. The first shop is called NeoGeo Land and it's located at the Akihabara Conta

This news is brought to you by the Retro DNA folks as a way to celebrate SNK's 40th anniversary. Check out the tied-in features here.  We bet most of you are planning a weekend trip to Singapore for this year's biggest fighting game tournament in our humble region: the South East Asia Major 2018. Did you also know

We're in the final stretches; this is yet another SNK article in conjunction with Retro DNA, who will have an SNK tribute booth at GameStart Asia 13th-14th October. Check out our other SNK feature offerings here.  If you love collection SNK games and Neo Geo AES boards, chances are you have a high-paying job and yo